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PARLIAMENT. OF LORDS, MAitcn 22. Lone (711ANO:I.T.Ott, the Earl of SHATTESBURT, etl Lord 31E1.v 'tree, sat as Commissioners, and notified the 11.14aViiseent to the Army Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the, Indemnity Bill, the Promissory Note Bill, the Bank ""`f►tYvabsyett hill, the Scotch Jurors Bill, the Wok India Eecle lisetical•Sidaries Bill, the Irish Prisons' Bill, and a great num ber of Private Bills. Accounts were presented at the Bur, of the Public Income "d Espendintre. (Or one year, up to the sth of January, 10211, otid several other Annual iteturne. Petitions against any alteration in the present system of 'banking in Seetlend were presented by the Earl of GLASGOW, from the borough of Renfrew; and by the Duke of. ATUOLL, tre,.;7l Wengowrte, • I.6rd MEINIfiLE gave notice, that he would to - morrow introduce a Bill to mike permanent the Act of last Session of Parliament relative to Joint Stock Companies in Scotland, en abling them to sue and be sued by their °dicers. • Petitions praying for the abolition of slavery were. presented by the Earl of Snare' ESBUTRY, from Kendal; and by Lord CALTUORPt, from Wakefield, front Basingstoke, from Chelmsford, t'rom Rumftird, front Thurston, in Lancashire, • from %Vale, in Hertfordshire, anti front Caerfaly, in Glamor ganithire. Earl GROSVENOR gave notice, that soon after the holi. 'days, he would move for Papers relative to the treatment of 'Slaves in - ilerbice. The Noble Earl also gave notice, that ho *mild move an instruction to the Committee now sitting, to consider the propriety of enacting a law for recovering the pay ment of Small Notes by summary process. The Earl of I,AUDEItDALL observed, that such a mea. sore could have•nothing to do with the subject which the corn ,nittee was appointed to investigate. • BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. The LORD CIIANCELLOR called the attention of the House to a breach of privilege. IVe understand, that in con sequence of some observations made by Mr. Fonblanque on . the evidence of a witness in an appeal now pending before the House of Lords, a letter had been written to the Learned Gen tleman by a Mr. Wharton. The hand-writing of the letter, and its receipt by Mr..Fonblanque, through the medium of the twopenny post, were proVed yesterday at an early hour, after which the letter was delivered into the House. The Lord ilhancellor now adverted to the subject, but spoke in so low a tone of voice that he was not distinctly heant thronghout.- -He wished to' call their Lordships' attention to a transaction which had taken place, connected with the judicial business of the House. • A letter addrettised to a Counsel in a cause heard At the Bar had yesterday been delivered into the IlOtifSe, and he had now risen for the purpose' of moving, that the person sup posed to be the author of that letter should he required to at. tend at the bar. in an appeal front an Irish Court of haw, one of the Counsel, Mr. Fonblanque, in his address to their Lord. :ships on the case, trittikeome remarks on the testimony of an individual who had 'been called its a witness on the opposite sale. Now, if any observatioee not consistent with the duty of u Counsel had been made at their Lordships' bar, it would have been Mr the flouse to notice it, and he shotild have taken rare that the diameter of the individual whose name was thus introduced before the House should be attended to. It was the duty of Counsel, in stating the circumstances of' a case, to subMit to, their Lordships for their information, every 'ohm vrttion which 'he thought necessary to make, as to the credit due to any pert of the evidence, and it was not competent for any person to impede the proceedings of that House by calling In question what sus eo stud. He now called their horkshipo' • attention to the letter, which was in the following terms:— Bra—ln consequence or what you said respecting my father, 1 beg leave to uninin• you that 1 consider you a liar and a scoundrel, you . being the first man who ever doubted my fa titer's veracity. Joust C. - Wltanerost. The Noble and Learned Lord made some observations on this letter; end, as we 'understood, on the necessity or their Lordships' checking conduct which was calculated to impede Cade judicial procetelinent, by depriving them of that assistance from Counsel which was necessary to enable them to decide on it the causes heard at their bar. He concluded by moving, " that John C. Wharton be ordered to attend this House to-nmrrow." -:--Ordered.—Adjourned. HOUSE OU' COMMONS. 'A person Crow the Custom-house brought up an account of all Imports foul .Experts of the United Kingdom for the tart y car. - A persOn from the Treasury brought up .an account of the number of pounds weight of tobacco anti anuft on which the du tier had been paid during the last year. • • 'tieneral GASCOVNE brought up the Report on the Man. cheater and Liverpool RaiLroad lu l l, which was laid on the table. Petitions flr the Abolition of Slavery were presented. by Sir C. Ctii.E, from Cowbridge, Glattnirgaroddre ; by Sir Wu.. LlAat Ivtaas.ov, from Oldford and Spilsby, Lincolnshire ; by Mr. CtritvrEN, from trititehaven and VVorthington ; by Mr. Sox, from (iodalming ; and by Colonel Wo(iii, from tiro borougitof nrecon.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. LITTLETON agreed, on the suggestion of Mr. Cal mi.:, to . postpone the resolutions. which wat, to he brought terward in the Committee on Private Bill, ' until Thursday, the 20th of Apt next, and the order a tlw day being Alit. charged, gos , e ttotice thereof accordingly. 111 r. Al A L'i" presented t wti petitions from Abingdon ; one praying for relief in the amount of the assessed taxes, end the other, that the. manner of collecting the poor's rates, which the petitioners found extremely burdensome, should be altered. The lion. Member ai,o m.4ented a petition from James Bar ber, a sehoohnaster, in the same town, complaining of the an onnt of tie house and window tax. , Colonel 11'001) pre:witted. a Petition from 21 .Adjutants. of Al Ohio, conii;laining that their retired allowances had been re &teed from :Is. to fis. per day, and praying that they should be placed in the same stination as before. Lord P.114:1I ERSTON presented a Petition from Charles Ceilings, of Lanthelh, complaining that the laws' relating to patents Ilid.not afford safiletent protection to persons to whose ingenuity the public was indebted fur many inventions of teat' importance amt utility,; rut praying Coat the, smile principle which insured to authors the copy right.K in theirvworks for more kngthono.l peri: . als, might he iipplied to patents. The Noble 1 c;rd thought that the sit jest was one i halt was fairly entitled to the consideration of the Masi:, tout hoped that his lion. Friend the Attornev.Ciericral would adopt the views of the petitioner, and ail'ord some l'4rclicr advantage to that me. ritornms class of pt.lollh LO whose interests the petition re. lured. The Arroarqx-GTNERAL concurred with his Hon. li•iend that the siihject was one of great importance, and that the personn r.ltudcii to had unqueitionable claims to every pro teetlini that could he atibrded them consistently with thepublic interests. The feeling or the Muse, and that of every person out of the Iloose who could appreciate the discoveries in science, most be the same On this subject. The objects of the petition appeared! obe Various. In the first place, it prayed that, so of' the present law as prevented assignments of patents being made to more than lox persons, should be repealed. That restriction had been inserted in consequence of a provision to the saute elect in the Act of the Gth Geo. 1., commonly called the Bubble Act; and since the House had thought fit to repeal thatlaw, It seemed to • him -vary reasonable that the restriction should now be taken oft The petitioner complained of the short duration of the patents. end wished' that they might have the same extent us copy., • rights in books, and'referred to the laws in foreign countries us more equitable on this subject than our own. Ile (the Attor 'ley-General) had looked into the French law, anti had found that Patent% were granted. lit France for five, ten, or fifteen . y ears, mecording to the nature and merit of the inventions. lie was ready to admit:that in many instances, fourteen years were not enough. ft might happen, as it often did, that the intri cate an d expensive wore . of ie machitiery required to bring the invention into:practice would not allow the paten. tee to reap a fair reward from his labours in so abort a • ,time. In twine such instances the fioutte had, upon appli cation, passed bills thr extending the duration of the pa -tent. in a great variety of Instances, however, the period now allowed by law was quite Sufficient; but the difficulty - might be obviated by leaving in the discretion of the Crown a power to extend, the- term, if eiretunstancei should appear to require. With regard to the expellee of patents, he had found inquiry into the subject that the.cost was much the SUMO brie as to other countries. In France it amounted to 15,009 fran ca'( nearly NW.), anti in England the cost was usually a compenson witletbe situation of au.' Ito thought that up o n thorn the patentees were in the enjoyment of. a preferable pro a p e rson Made a di tectton, scovery in chemistry, or any science, and pu blished it In the shape of a book,. any body avail t h ems elves of it, and pirate. the substance of the not the fornt. The 'lntent, on the.contrary, from any possible infringement, he protected the inventor, cause it whatever being made of his gave him an immediate appeal to the common law for use , redreas, in the twat of AnY -i iiten d on ._,Th, p et i t ion was then ordered to lie on the table, . and to be printed: Mr. P. CORBETT prese nted a petition from the Alaltser e Shrewsbury, complaining of the effect of the introduction of .the New Measures on their trade. WELCH IKON AND COAL CO.3IPANY. Mr. V. MOORE brought up the report on the ‘Veleh Iron and Coal totupany Bill. On the motion that the report be .leeelved, . Mr. LITTLETON rose for,ths purpose of objecting to the report on this Bill, which,byigiving to thepfNers of the com pany the power of suing and being . sued; w i ould invest them with all the privileges of aeorporauon. A Bill similar to that now before the House had been introduced in the last session, and it appearing objectionable in its principle, as well as most injurious in its effect upon the interests of -persons in that part of the country in which its operation was to be confined, it had been strongly opposed. The lion. Gentleman's constituents had been particularly earnest in that opposition, and incurred a considerable expence.. He (Mr. Littleton) had attended all the Committees on the Bill, at none of which the lion. Chair men (Mr. Peter Moore) had, for reasons probably best known to himself, thought lit to be present. In . the last session, he (Mr. Littleton) moved fir the llill being thrown out, and the House then unanimously coincided with him. He hoped that the same result would be experienced on the present occasion, and therefore concluded by moving, " That the Report be re. eeived this day six months." - - Mr. P. MOORE said, he hoped the Hon. ',6entlman would be induced to withdraw his opposition to the Bill, which was really one of grcat public utility. There had already been 2,0001. or 3,0001. subscribed, and it was probable that as large a sum. would be added to the capital of the company. Mines had been purchased, and shafts dug, in which a great expense had been incurred. As the law now stood, many serious diffi culties stood in the way of persons who had to proceed against the company, because they were obliged to insert in their bills the names of the shareholders; and in the event of any one of them dying during the suit, the proceedings would have to be renewed. It was obvious, then, that the Bill would be of great utility to the public, and as he believed that no more re. apectable company than this had been formed for the last half century, he trusted that the Hon. Gentleman would not persist in his opposition. - - - - • • • - Colonel WOOD hoped that his Hon. Friend (Mr. Littleton) would not he induced to relax his opposition. Every body who knew the mining counties of :Wales knew that this company was not at all necessary. Instead of there not being enough, there was too much iron there, and the great evil of this Bill would be, that it would Increase the competition to a mischicv. bus extent. Colonel DAVIES sahL that the reasons given by the two Hon. Members for their opposition was very extraordinary.— They alleged no public grounds fOr it ; they did not say that it was likely to prove delusive, but they only alleged that it would be opposed to the interests of the iron-masters with whom they were connected, in that part of the country where the Bill would be carried into operation. He could not understand WIT ! if such a company were to exist, the public was to be deprived of the power which it was now proposed to give them in all legal proceedings, since it was clear that if they had not that power they would be wholly without tiny adequate remedy. Mr. S. - WORTLEY said his objection to this bill was, that it gave the sanction of Parliament to a company only for the purpose of enabling them to come into the market upon better terms than any other persons. Every allegation in the preamble of the bill was false. It stated that great advantages had been der ived to the principality of Wales by the establishment of this company. lie denied that in Wales, or in any other part of the kingdom, any advantages had been derived from such companies. alr. CALCltrin op nosed the bill because he conceived it to be a scheme to raise the value of the company's shares. He stood up to defend those persons who traded on their individual capital against the efibrts of a sonibination. Mr. BARINO was afraid that the House was inclined to proceed too hastily on die subject. ' Last year they passed all Bills relating to companies of .the most trumpery description, and now they seemed indisposed to pass any which was at all - connected with a company. It became the House to be more consistent in their legislation. They ought to decide upon a general principle, and not with reference. to the merits of par ticular companies. - Lord PALM ERSTON,did not think that by passing the Bill the House would ,appear to give a sanction to the company If the company were one notoriously unstable, that wotyld be A ground for rejecting the Bill ; but the company had been in existence twelve months, and he understood that the whole of their capital was paid up. Tice e CHANCELLOR—of the EUCHEQUER said, he was reluctant to take apart in the .discussion • but he wished to know whether the company availed themselves of an Act passed last year, by which the Crown was empowered to grant limited charters. Ile thought that before the company came to that House to claim the advantage which would be conferred by the present bill, they ought in the first instance to have op plied fur a limited charter to the King in Council, by whom the character of the company might be fully inquired into. It was impossible that the Muse could undertake to decide upon the fact stated in the preamble of the Bill—namely, that the company would prove beneficial. Lord A. 11A M I LTON said that joint stock companies came to that House to obtain Bills of the nature of that before the House, in order to gain a character out of doors, and to enable theta to sell their shares to advantage. The House ought to proceed with extreme caution on the subject, after the dishonest practices which were committed • by the joint 6tockcompanies who 'obtained charters last year. 141 r. HUSKISSON - said; he was not aware that any notte , rious bubble companies had obtained Sanetton from that House. The number of applications made last year for Acts„of Par liament, on the part of joint stock companies, first called the attention of the House to the subject, and they (the Howie) al moot came to a resolution not to entertain, as a matter of course, an application from any number of persons associated in partnership for permission to sue and he eyed through their eecretary. Towards the dose of last year Parliament made an alteration in the Act of Ocorge 1., the effect of which was to enable the Crown to grant limited charters to joint stock companies. %Viten that legislative measure was adopted, the fever of speculation' had abated, but was not .altogether subsided. A great number of applications were made to the Icing in council for charters. Whilst those applications were under consideration, many of them were withdrawn, and he believed that the parties who had withdrawn them were now very glad that they had not been put to the expence of pro-. 'curing a charter. The company to which the present Bill re ferred was instituted, he understood, for the purpose of working mines and minerals in Wales. ()ne of the applications made ro the Privy Council for a charter was, by a. company for working mines and minerele in Scotland, and the'application was backed by- the recommendation of the first people in Scotland. ..He was one of those who did not think it proper to navise the Crown to grant any privilege to a company. which, by the general description of their object, might work any thing, from a slate. quarry to a gold mine, if they coeill find any.—(Hear !)—The application of the Scotch' Company was therefore rejected...— The • House should be certain before they granted special privileges to joint stock companies, That the business which they proposed to carry on was not auflicently well. executed the application of' ordinary partnership capi. tul.—(Hear, hear I) e ,-Onit of the results of the number of the speculations which were afloat last year had been to raise the price of wages artificially. Th.e workmen in StafrordShire and other places, led away by the,delusive hopes held tbrth by the joint stock companies, refused to work without a large increase of wages. lie 'thought that under these circumstances the House would do well to he very jealous of entertaining any schemes which would interfere with the ordinary mode of carrying on commerce, manufactures, and mining._( Hear!)--A t all events the Company in question ought to apply in the first instance to the Privy Council, where their afraira could be more accurately et emitted titan in that House. He would take this opportunity of expressing a wish ihst some person more conversant with legal matters--more fit to examine such subjects, than himself .._.would consider the present state of the law respecting part.. nermitipti in all its bearings end inconveniences. 'I he detects of the present system, as exhibited by various cases which.had lately occurred, Were such as could hardly be conceived. if' partner wax Libmn, the firm could not be sited till the _plaintiff obtained a writ of outlawry against the absentee. Whew the writ was obtained, another partner might abscond, - which would render it necessary for the plalntitf to go through the same process again. Then, it' there was the Slightest error in the oilmen of the persons composing the firm, the defendants would put in a plea of a batement. The unfortunate plaintiff was then placed in this situation—if the plea of abatement was at. lowed, there waken end of the action, and he could not get rid of the plea except by dropping the action and beginning again de nom It' the plant ill' brought a new.action, he might than be told that another person whom he had never heard of before was one of the firm, and he had no means of disproving the fact, because he could not examine the defendant:4.as witnesses. These were some of the evils resulting front the present state of the law, Perhaps. they might in some degree be remedied by compelling all partners to register their names, and by pro. viding, that where the firm consisted of more than a certain number of ►pertioni, one partner might be sued for the whole. lie hoped gist some aoinpetent person would amend the law as worded partnerships, which system he believed to be the main incitement to a spirit of industry which prevailed in this country. • The amendment was then carried, without a division. The Bill is therefore lost.. Mr. BUTTERWORTH presented two petitions from pi riave;liyeiinn th E e sse w x c e s t t ul ln l: t o ie r s ksifire, praying for the abolition of blae On the motion of the. GUANCELLOR of the ExcitEettrEn, cite House resolved Itself into a Committee of Supply. IRISH F•iSTIMATES. Mr. 00 ULDURN moved that the sum of 25,0001. be grant ed in aid of the Society for Promoting the education of the, Poor in Ireland, for the year IWO. Mr. HUAI kl was surprised that Ministers should bring for ward the estimates Ma Wednesday —a. day on which lc was understood that no business of any importance should be trans acted.-.(llear Mr. GOULBURN said that they were brought forward that day, because the House did not sit on Friday. Mr. HUME then proceeded to argue against the vote. .He complained .that the Committee, con sing several 1141iiips of the Irish Church, had allowed the takes ties, at least, to the fabrication of untrue moire?: It was not a little remarkable, and it ought to take away the confidence of the House, to observe the manner in which the returns had been made out. From some most unaccountable casualty in the numbers. It happened that in no instance had the scholars been in any proportion less or more but 70 to a school. This was the exact computation throughout the provinces of Ulster, Munster, Leinster, and Connaught. He was now quoting from the returns of 1024—not having those of 1825 in his immedi ate possession, of course it was impossible to put any faith in such returns. By the same returns the whole number of scholars was given at 102,000. By the amended returns they were found to be no more than 50,000. He left it to the lion. Members for Derry and for Dover, who had pledged their honour to the accuracy of the statements of the Committee, to reconcile these discrepancies. The number of schools was by the former return 1,400; it was now known that they were not 000. He complained of the wild abuse of the money granted in the mode of its application. For a registrar. su perintendent, and 12 clerks, 1,1741. For 10 inspectors, 1,1221. For gratuities to teachers who hive deseri . ed well of the society, 9,4001. This was' a system which ought to be stopped without further delay. He did not wish to stop the vote at present, especially as there was a Commission now sitting and in active inquiry into the subject of Irish education. But with the re duced numbers of schools and scholars, there could be no rea son for the present sum. He proposed as an amendment to reduce it from 25,0001. to the amount voted last year, 22,0001. Lord MILTON did not know but that the Committee could give sonic explanation of the cause which had brought exactly seventy scholars into every one of these schools: for the cal culation of his Hon. Friend did not apply merely to the divi. sion of Ow provinces, but to the schools of every one of the thirty-four counties. Until the House had some such expla nation, it would be utterly disgraceful to continue to vote so large a sum of money, as the returns were, from their very, nature, void of credibility. Mr. BUTTERWORTH said that the Kildare-street schools had done more good for Ireland than the lion. Member was likely to do in 20 years, should his life be spared so long. He' could not readily explain how the returns had been made out to tally with a particular 'mintier of scholars. Perhaps some general average was taken. At any rate, he was ready to repeat what he had said on a former night, that it was not possible to conceive that so respectable a body s that Committee would lend themselves to any fabrications, or that they would be par ties to telling stories. They were men of the highest character, not clergymen of the church of England only, as the Hon. Gen tleman would have the Douse to believe, but men of many other Christian persuasions. There were several Quakers in it; there was a physician, Dr. Burroughs, a man of high and unim peachable character and eminence in his profession ; and Mr. Jackson, a respectable barrister, was secretary. Surely be must believe in the honour and integrity of these persons, at least, as readily as he could trust to the representations of the lion. Gentleman. Let the Don. Member, however, try the matter fairly. Let him put his allegations in black and white, and send them to Dublin, and then, no doubt, they would be sufficiently refuted. As to any sudden diminution of the numbers, that was readily accounted for by those who knew the state o f the country. , There were continual alterca tions arising between the Roman Catholic Clergy ;and the managers of the schools, as to the propriety of using the Bible as a school-book. A most respectable friend of his in Ireland supported several schools for the education of the children of the Roman Catholic poor at his own expence. A disagreement took place upon the ordinary subject, and through the influence of the Catholic priests, there were NO children withdrawn from them in one week. It was quite possible that .50,000 children might be withdrawn front. the Kildare-street schools almoat all at one time, so great was the power of the Rennin Cathelic in fluence. Mr. GOULBURN had not the Report of 1824 before him, and could not undertake to say that the Hon. Gentle Man was wrong. But from the inaccuracies of statements professedly taken from the book in the hands of the Hon. Gentleman, he must be allowed to doubt for the present the accuracy of his other statements. The Hon. Gentleman was as little justified in complaining of the estimates being brought forward, he himselt having been a party to the general agreement for bringing them on this evening, because (Mr. (loulbtirn) had for tire accommodation of the gentlemen Opposite, postponed them from the night for which they were fixed. lie had no objection to any returns being called for and produced, which would better the infottnation of the House. Mr. IRDIE, after a few observations, concluded by ob serving that he thought he acted with great liberality in allow ing the spin proposed to be voted for the society for the pre-. sent year, to pass with Out offering any further opposition. Mr. BRIGHT said, that from the suspicious circumstances connected with the proceedings of the iiildare-street Society, he wished that the. vote 'should stand over until some gentleman connected with Ireland should explain those circumstances to the satisfaction of the House.. • • • Mr. F. LEWIS said, that with respect to the returns al luded to by the lion. Member for Limerick, they were in a state of preparation, and when ready, which would Ire very soon, they would if required be submitted to the House.' The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to observe that the number of pu pils returned by the society was.made for the year 1824, and al though they had stated the number to be 100,000, that calcula tion had been made with reference, not to the number of pupils at present instructed, but to the number of pupils which ap peared upon the rolls of the different schools. Although be ad mitted that it was wrong to make such a return, he begged to bear testimony of the high respectability of. the managers of the Rildare-strect Society. The honour and Integrity of those gentlemen had been most unfairly attacked, anti it was but Justice to vindicate their characters from the stigma attempted to he fixed upon them. Mr. HUME did not wish to cast any reflection on those Gentlemen individually ; but in their collective capacity they had certainly committed errors. How were those errors at tempted to be reconciled ? According to the report of the so. ciety, the number of children educated by them was 100,000, while in point of fact it was little more than halt' that amount. The report of thi Managers was, then, at variance with truth. It was in fact an unfounded statement. With respect to the share which the Roman Catholics had in the management of the so ciety, it appeared that there were only two gentlemen .f that persuasion who were connected with it, one of whom was dead. —(A laugh.)—Was it therefore to be expected that die Roman Catholic population ofiteland would suffer their children to at tend those schools, the managere of which were, with one ex ception, Proteitants ? An alteration in the system was loudly called for, and lie hoped it would take place at no very distant day. The vote was then put,' and carried. The following votes were then proposed, and passed without any continent, viz. 1.31,194 for the Foundling hospital in Dublin, for the year ceding Jan. 5, 1827. L 21,025 for the House of Industry in Dublin, and the ge neral hospitals attached thereto, from Jan. 1826, to Jan. 1827, inclusive. L 7,978 for the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, for the year ending Jan. 5, 1827. • L 7,521 for the Hibernian Society,for the care of soldiers' children, for the year ending Jan. 5, 1827. £3,128 fur the Hibernian Marine Society in Dublin, for the year ending in Jan: 1027, L 2,6110 for the Female Orphan House, Circular.road, .Dub lin, from Jun. 5, 1826, to Jun. 5, 1827. L 4,000 fer.the Westmorland Lock Hospital, to . Jan. 1827. L 2,282 Mr the Lying-in -Hospital, Dublin, for th e year 1828. 1.1,11115 for Dr. St even ' s H ospita l , D u bli n, f or t h e year end ing Jan. 1827. . L-1,210 for the F ever Hospital and House of Recovery, Cork street, Dublin, fo r one year , commenc i ng J an . 5, It L19,9:18 for the Irisli'Linen Board ter the year 1820. £465 tor the Hospital of Incurables at Dublin, for the year ending sth January, 1827. L 8,928 for the Irialr•lioMan Catholic Seminary; for the year ending in January, 1827. L 1,3113 for the Cork Institution. L 7,000 for thebublin Society. • £lO,OOO f or the Commissioners of Wide-streets, Dublin. £2,509 for the Fanning Society of Ireland. L3OO for the Royal Irish Academy. L7OO for the Board of Charitable Bequests. - £24,000 for the Board of Works. /L.l.,6lo,6,loitio.lstiftoflriorryprpririninenti stationery, gl n g g :eoct anti:t:o.lls a . nd the o ffi ces of the Chief Secretary for Ireland. This vote occasioned a few words from Air. HUTCHINSON arid 51r. Gour.nuax. 435,935 for criminal proSecutions in Ireland. Ll 3 9^‘) -or 1101 1-conforminfrand'other dissenting ministers in Ireland. 1.1,072 for salaries to lottery-officers. L 6,299 for _inland navigation. L 25,000 for th e D u bl in p o lice establishments. £7, 3 19 f or t h e conunissioners of judicial inquiry. 1.1,635 for the commiaaionera of Crown lands. L 3,500 for the board of public records. L 36,000 for public works in Ireland. ADDITION TO THE NATIONAL PICTURE. GALLERY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in rising to propose a vote of 9,000/. for the . yurchase of .three _pictures to add to the National Gallery, wished to explain to the House the circumstances under which the purchase had been effected. Having heard that three paintings of some of i so (ri the most renowned o' • old masters were on e, and wish ing to add them to the onal collection, his jesty's Go veristsiNitti4, fortunate 4ough In. having agreed for their 110444! whet.: • . .eigalltaitare of their value, h was iitire t ere could 4e 'tit one oliinibn on the subject. One of the pictures was painted by Poussin, another by Caracci, and the third . was the production of that ' celebrated master, Titian. The three paintings were admirable specimens of the respective masters. The picture by Carracci was admitted to be one of the best of that great master. It was a singularly beautiful painting with respect both to its design and the ex. quisite felicity of its colouring. The picture by Titian had been some time in . this country. Its subject was Bacchus and Ariadne, and it was confessedly the finest specimen of that great master. It was not a large picture, but its beauty was unequalled. He was quite certain that no person would grudge the sum of 9,000/., which had been given for those pictures. Artists and persons of the first taste and judgment had con curred in praising their beauty. The late Mr. Angerstein bad offered (~000!. for the Titian alone, so that the three ' pictures could•not be considered dear at the price which they cost the countrp They were now in the National Gallery, which was open to the inspection of the public. The vote was carried without any further observation. After a few words from Colonel Wool) and Lord PALMEA STow, the sum of 287,4071. was voted for defraying the charges of the disembodied militia of Great Britain and !Medd. House having then resumed, Mr. BROGDEN was or dered to bring up the report to-morrow (this day). SILK DUTIES BILL. Mr. ELLICE wished to know if it was the intention of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite to proceed in this bill, which stood committed for this day. Mr. GRANT replied that it was his intention to recommit the bill till after the recess, in order that it should be fully dis. cussed by those lion. Gentlemen who might take an interest in the question. The Report was then ordered .to be taken into consideration on Friday three weeks. The Church Lands Exchange Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Charing-cross Improvements Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Mr. H ERR lES (on behalf of Mr. CANNING) gave notice, that to-morrow he would move the adjournment of the House to Wednesday the hth of. April. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at HALF-PAST SEVIN O'CLOCK. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoill, dated Friday, March 21.) MADRID, MMICII O.—The papers seized upon Bann and the persona of his band, contain all the details of the extravagant plan formed by the revolutionists. In case of success, the Government was to be confided to a sort of regency or directory, composed of Romero Alpuente, and other violent Jacobins. A supreme revolutionary tribunal was to be erected in the capital, and subaltern tribunals in the provinces, to do justice on the enemies of liberty. Models of lists of proscription were drawn up, and they had even been filled for some towns on the coast of Valencia, par ticularly for Guardaniar, the rlace at which they landed. A woman was condemned to a fine for having danced with Cham. bo (a Royalist guerillero.) The estates of the- clergy and of the nobility were to be confiscated, for the two-fold purpose of remedying the penury of the , finances, anti of destroying classes incompatible with the new order of things. Minute regulations fixed also the details. ,of the intended civil :and financial administration. however incredible such mad projects may appear, the pre ceding conduct of &lies and Bazan did not permit any thing more moderate or reasonable to be expected from them or froth those who directed them. Accordingly, the news of their de feat has been received with general satisfaction. It is presumed that such a result will cause the project of.a second expedition which was preparing at Gibraltar to be abandoned. It appears be sides, that, though formed for the same purpose, the persons who were to make part ,of it did not partake to their whole extent the wicked and sanguinary plans of the companions of Bann. Several of the revolutionists of the band of Bazan have not yet been shot. They have made important disclosures, which implicate in their plot the name of Mina, and of a person of Iconsequence. It is affirmed Abet the Spanish Consul at Gibraltar has ob.. tamed a positive promise that all the refugees who are at all dangcrousthall be shortly expelled from the place, and even from the hay. The Government has already recommended very strict vigilance to the persons who are charged with the Police of the roads. The most distinguished of the refugees lodged in the town are forbidden to leave it; they are noted at the gates, and must beat home at eight o'clock in the evening to,expect the police officers, whO will take a review of them se. veral times in the week. The Board of Health at Cadiz being informed that there are in several towns in Morocco very destructive fevers caused by the extreme distress, has just ordered that all persons coming from that empire shall be subject to 15 days' quarantine. The Infanta Donna Louisa Carlota being in the ninth month of her pregnancy, official notice of it has just been given to the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, the Councillors of State, the Captains-General of the Army, the Chiefs of the Supreme Councils, and to the four Grandees of Spain, who, according to custom, must attend at the presentation of the, child immedi ately upon its birth. - A great deal has been said within these few days of a duel between two Garties du Corps, both foreigners.„ One of them, Of English descent, was accused by several of his comrades of a dishonourable action. As he could not be legally convicted of it, he detnanded satisfaction for the injurious suspicions of which he was the object, and challenged his accusers. Three of them came forward to settle the quarrel ; the first wounded him very severely in the throat. He is now under an arrest, as well as all his comrades. PARIS, Mnactt 20.—A letter from Vienna says--" His Majesty the Einperor had, in the night of the 10th of March, an attack of fever, which, Heaven be praised, was not attended with any alarming symptom. His Majesty was much better the next morning, And there is every reason to hope the speedy recovery of this adored monarch. His Majesty slept six hours in the night of the 11th, and is now entirely convalescent." It is affirmed that orders of the day, lately read to the troops, dissuades individuals belonging to the army of the Netherlands from taking part, directly or indirectly, in the societies or committees, the object of which is to send aid, or to collect subscriptions, in support of the Greeks. FRENCH FUNDS.—PAnis, MARCH 20.-...)Five per Cents. 96f. 35c.—Three per Cents., tl4l. 75e.—Bank Stock, 2,000 f. Rente de Naples, 72f. 20c.—Royal Spanish Loan, 41if.—Ex. change on London, onemonth, 25f. 55C. ; three months, 25f. 30c. —Wows ileithentique.) MEAT is now selling in some parts of the coun try ut 4d. and sd. per lb., while in London the price of almost every article of food remains un reduced. A young Lady looking into the Family Bible, marriage.".-..This induced her father r age doeth his a nd observing the date of her birth, took her pencil t yet ai the age of 21, and o to write beneath—" H e w h o g i ve th i n well, but he w ho giveth not in marriage doeth better."—To which she made the ng d ive w n ro i t l wrot e- -cc ria 4 a g r Above ge„ following reply—" Dear Father, I lots to do 1 well—let those do better who caw" m MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. etTOLA . Alaifhp, Imino .., Nos. 4, Ft, 46, 71, 305, t • 407, 458. .COUNXIM Nas. 227, 320, 361 Y, 41)0, 540, 578, 597, 707, Tuesday, 731. - 28, LoNnox. Nos. 33, 86, 235, 349. Co LINT KY. Nos. 38, 67, 68, 87, 130, 145, 340, 427, 640, 668. ‘Vednesday, - 29, Lox o lc. Lodge of Benevolence. COUNTRY. Nos. 112, 543, 649. 'Thursday, 30, Lotcnox. Nos. 7, 39, 327. COUNTRY. Nos. hi, 110, 113, 176, 453, 506, 657, 670. -31, 14o.yrno . s. No. 239. Cott Tlt Nos. 53, 230. Saturday, April 1, LoNnox. No. 173. COUNTRY. • Friday, • • PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS• ROUSE OF COMMONS-MIS DAY). ORM:RS.OIr HE DAY. I. East India Writers Bill—. Second reading. 2. Juries in India Bill—Committee. 3. Supply—Report. 4. Annual Duties Bill—Committee. 15. Offences at Sea Bill—Report. Silk Duties Bill—Report. 7. Valuation of Ireland Bill—Committee. NOTICE OF moTtox. 111 r. Herries—Atijournment of the House, till Weancsday, the sth of April. MICE OF STOCKS TIIIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 7B 74 3i per Cent. Ditto Red. shut 4 per Cent. New 9 5i1l Bank bong Ann. ..... shut India Stock shut Ditto Bonds, 4p. c. 1 3 pm. South Sea Stock PRICES OF FOREIGN Fl Austrian lids, 5 per cent.... Brazilian Bile 551 Buenos Ayres Bda Bds, 6 per ct. 5O Colombian Ms Do. 1821 .... 5OlO Danish, 3 per cent 3511$ tireek Lids Do. 11126 Guatimala Mexican Ms. 5 p. c. Do. 1825, 6 p. c. 6b ti DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK• - - - _ Old Annuities New Mai 77f Ex.11i11510001.2d. 3 4 2 3 pm. Ditto SON. 2d. . . 3 4 2 3 pm. Ditto Small 2d....3 4 2 3 pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Acct. India for Acct. Cone. for Adel. 7B h NHS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, '824 Peruvian Bonds 3li 2 1 Portuguese Bonds Prusi.ian, 5 per cent. ...... Ditto New • -- Rusaian, New, sp. c....... 78. 8 Spanish 1821, 6 p. c. ...... 10i 1823 French Rentes, 5 p. c. —f Exchange ... .—f ---- 3 p. c. Exchange PRICES OF SHAKES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per Share. f 5 7i 14 A nglo-Mexican Mining Company Anglo-Chilian Mining Company Brazilian Mining Company ... British Iron Company General Mining Association • • 4 Pasco Peruvian Mining Company • 13 New United Mexican Mining Company 11 Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company FOttEIGN 70A1F.S. - ARRIVED. Dug. Flanders -i 0 France - 1 II Wit IVATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOR.ROW. Morning. 26 minutes after 2. f Evening, 50 minutes after 2. ** 7'he Public are respectfully informed, that SUN has passed into other hands, and con tinues to be published, as usual, at No. 11% Strand. E SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1826. It appears that the rumour of the Emperor Of AUSTRIA having been seriously ill was net an exaggeration. The Austrian Observer of the 12th contains the following Bulletin :—. u'LLziix or TUT UEALTII or ins MAJESTY THE EMFEROII. " His Majesty the Emperor was suddenly taken ; ill in the night of the Bth, and seized with an inflammatory fever, against which all the necessary remedies were immediately employed. On the 10th, at six in the morning, his Majesty was blooded, which afforded hint some relief. The degree of fever, and the other symptoms of the disorder, rendered it necessary to take away some more blood, which was done the same day, and greatly diminished the symptoms of the disorder, so that in the night of the 10th his Majesty had some quiet sleep, and on the 11th in the morning felt himself something easier. On account of the local pain, leeches were applied to-day, by which the pain was very much lessened. The course of the disorder hitherto gives every reason to expect that his Majesty will in a short tide be wholly recovered. Baron Von STIVT, his Majesty's Chief Physician• " VIE NI;A, 1114Itcu 11.—Eight o'clock in the evening." In the Frankfort Oracle of the 22d, we find a second Bulletin, dated March 12. From this it appears, that there was a recurrence of fever after the issuing of the first Bulletin. His MAJESTIC was, I)owever, relieved by bleeding, which in the language of the bulletin, " increases the hope of his MAJESTY'S speedy recovery." Although there is no specific detail of symptoms, from which any app re h e nsi on of a fatal Issue of the Ester tten.'s illness can be deduced, it is evident that his recovery is not viewed with absolute confidence : FRANKFORT, 111Aucu 17. (Extract from the Austrian Observer of March 13.) BECOXD BULLETIN OF THE HEALTH OF lIIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR. " In the night of the 11th the symptoms of the disorder and the fever became so mach worse, that his Majesty was unable to sleep. In the morning of the 12th the Emperor experienced some relief, but it was not of long continuance, and towards noon it was necessary to bleed him again. His Majesty felt considerable relief from this operation, and continues to be more easy, which increases the hope of his Majestyls speedy " Baron VON STIFT. recovery. " Vienna, Alareli 12, half-pad seven in the evening." 0 (Frankfort Oracle, March h e Brussels Papers notice the remarkable coin cidence of three European Monarchs being simul taneously under the influence of indisposition. Happily the convalescence of our Monarch, bas relieved the public from the apprehensions t °~ .~.